I am currently writing this post in the midst of a blizzard nor'easter. I'm sat, here in my sitting room, with the fire ablaze. Outside is white, where I usually see the sea, and the windows are frosted in Winter.
However, 2 days ago, there was no snow to be seen, but it was COLD. This week has had some continuous frozen but sunny days that have allowed me to wander our beach and shores wondering at the magic of frozen sea water and sea life.
Beachcombing in the ice and cold is magical
The tracery of a retreating tides magic can be seen here. The soft bubles on the "dead man's fingers" one of my favourite sea algaes next to the lacework of thing frozen ocean atop the exposed seaweed.
Jack Frost must love the sea and the shore because he does some of his best work here
As I crouch low, in the golden dead seagrass, I can get a fairy's view of this forest of magical icy 'trees'. On icy days, such as these, as the tide slowly recedes it is frozen in thin layers and then the water below slips out leaving little discs of ice stuck to the broken sea grass. It looks very like a tree made of ice in miniature.
The strength of life of sea creatures always astounds me, though I'm witness to it daily
This rock, strewn in seaweed and barnacle is frozen in time for the moment. The ice and cold has got the best of time and said, "Hold please, I shall just keep these creatures in stasis or a bit, until Poseidon sees fit to return it's life giving liquid".
It gives me pause, these little baracle locked up tight in their little houses. Is there a fire and a pot of tea? Or are they, thanks to Ice and it's control of Time, stood stock still in their little drawing rooms as the sun moves the shadows across their little rugs and across the chimneypiece"
The seaweed, is it getting it's life extended as it holds still in its own moment of frozen time as we, outside this Icey control, just watch the minutes tick off our wristwatch?
You can see, on an icy cold day on one's beach in the dead of midwinter, pontificating is ramped up. The stories I can see in these rocks are fantastical to say the least; I only wish the photos did them justice.
I step onwards, into the slush of the retreating tide
There are many 'squealchs' that accompany a Wellie: Spring Mud, Autumn muck with browning leaves stuck in, Summer sand rimming the edges of squishy salt marsh. Yet, the 'squelch' of a welling in a thin layer of frozen sea salted water with wiggling seaweed under, is truly sonorous. There is a deep clumph after the tinkling high notes of the first break of the ice...but I digress.
This icy but clear blue sky day was just a perfect moment in time. The endless ice forests, emptied of it's water fairies, glistening in the sun or caught in the shade of the Spitting rock. It truly was a grand day out and now, as I write this, it has all been erased.
The tide rolls in and resets it all
Now here I sit with the view obscured in the sitting room with white blinding snow, I know down there, amongst the dead sea grass and the very alive barnacle and seaweeds and other creatures, a new world is forming and be created as I sit in my comfy chair with my feet by the fire.
As the log cracks and drops sparks and my page goes unread, I know out there a new scene and a new world is waiting to be discovered. I'm lucky to know that when I can, when the snow has stopped and the wind blown off to other shores, I'll slip down there to see: what has Nature made for my amusement.
And let's hope I've the where with all to take my camera so I can share it all with you lot.
I hope you've enjoyed my pontifications and my few shots of the icy shore on that frozen day. I hope you get a moment to stop and see the small details of your world and your day and hold ,for a moment, that frozen moment in time.
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What fantastic photos, as well as post!
This sounds like (reads) the beginning of some awesome prog-rock song, or motivational piece... I love the macro shots (that's the tech term for them... right?) but man sakes... that looks cold! I am guessing that's not a smart phone you are taking photos with. Guess I need to click one of your links up there, and look for myself! Hope you have a great weekend and thank you for taking us along with you, on this amazing journey!
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Great shots! It really is cool to see the thin layers of ice. So delicate. Enjoy the blankets of white the next few days ;)
Second hand observing beach winters is definitely interesting for me as most of the winter stories I've read or heard or watched are somewhere inland or have frozen rivers or lakes that people ice skate on, so it's quite fascinating to see what's normally associated with summers in its winter guise :D
We have that as well here, in fact we have some cranberry bogs ,not too far, that in the autumn are flooded to pick the cranberries ( a very New England scene that, the flooded bogs with the equipment out and then the men out in their hip waders and their cranberry scoops) and the other day some boys were out playing ice hokey. I wish I had got some of that footage. But, yes, this is a Summer Place and there are so many wonders to see here 'off season' I think. It has been cold tho.
wow. really frozen! Everything looks magical there ^_^
It IS magical, if not really cold @silviabeneforti I hope you are well :)
It’s funny I don’t really think of the beach as a place to visit in the crazy cold weather, more the lakes but I think we will give it a visit one of these coming days! I think those are some awesome and interesting shots you got, with the receding tide, what we consider cold but the seaweed and plants consider a lot warmer than the frosty air that we’ve been having! Is this Maine? That’s our favorite stretch of beaches for sure!
No this is Cape Cod MA and I'm lucky we live on the sea, so I sneak down and get photos often, easier to have winter beach trips if you don't have to brave the roads in the car :) @cmplxty
Ah, okay! Funny enough, I grew up on the north shore and it's funny how the north and south of Boston are divided. Most people on the north shore don't go below Boston to hit the beaches, they stick to the north shore or more north of there. People south of the city and on the cape don't often don't go to the north shore but stay where they are. Not guaranteed of course but I've found this to be the case 90% of the time lol. I think the only beach I've been to is in Hyannis, other than that it was north for me! :D
We don't live on the north shore any longer but hoping to get some time to get over to Maine soon!
That sounds about right, tho I do like the north shore as well. And we adore Maine, bar harbor is our favourite and of course NH for skiing. I really love our little area of New England. I hope you can make it back sometime soon, well possibly in the Summer :)
Yeah we are in New Hampshire for now, going to move maybe this year but we are enjoying what we are doing that’s for sure!
We’ve never been to bar harbor, I want to go so bad! The 5 hour drive holds me back though, with a young kid lol. We went to boothbay this summer and it was phenomenal!
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